News & Public Notices
Council Passes 2023 Municipal Budget
Posted Mar-15-2023
At a council meeting on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, Brockville council passed the 2023 municipal budget. Brockville’s tax levy increase for 2023 is 8.19%. The estimated tax rate increase is 7.37%, representing an estimated annual increase of $98.28 per $100,000 of assessment for a residential home. For an average Brockville residential property assessed at $250,000 this means an annual increase of approximately $245.70 in 2023.
The increase can be broken down as follows:
- 7.48% will be directed towards the regular operating and capital programs.
- One of the significant budget challenges that the City had to address this year was end of a 10-year contract for solid waste services. The City put out a call for proposals in 2022. With recent supply chain constraints and costs rising greater than the rate of inflation, the proposal was an increase of $2,000,000 over the previous year’s budget. Staff worked with a local contractor and were able to obtain a new agreement which saved over $800,000 from the proposal, but still resulted in an increase of $1,200,000 over the 2022 budget.
- $133,000 increase in fuel costs
- $472,917 changes to municipal pension to allow non-full time employes to join the Plan, including other payroll related increases with CPP and WSIB costs.
- $1,155,384 increases to support community partners. Total support $17,121,434 including:
- Cataraqui Conservation Authority-Levy $223,147
- Library-operating $890,000
- Police-operating $9,221,280
- Police-capital $254,597
- Aquatarium-operating $450,000
- Aquatarium-in kind $120,000
- Joint Services-Levy $3,865,438
- St. Lawrence Lodge-Levy $1,646,496
- Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit-Levy $450,476
- $97,100 decrease to support community groups. Total support $146,200 including:
- Physician recruitment $50,000
- Brockville YMCA $120,000
- Frontenac Arch Biosphere $6,200
- Arts Hub $10,000
- 1000 Islands Regatta $10,000
The budget continued to support current service levels while also investing in capital projects. Total capital budget $7,921,833 supporting:
- $4,883,033 in public works
- $1,218,463 reconstruction of Sherwood Street to replace 100-year-old water and sewer lines.
- $1,950,000 road surface maintenance
- $1,122,180 public works equipment
- $130,000 traffic signal controllers
- $200,000 tree maintenance
- $262,390 bridges/culvert maintenance
- $1,061,075 in recreation facilities/parks including:
- $319,175 playground equipment.
- $140,000 Brock Trail development.
- $57,000 baseball field maintenance.
- $175,000 accessible kayak launch and dock replacement
- $282,400 parks equipment
- $87,500 general parks maintenance
- $185,750 for equipment updates at the Brockville Arts Centre
- $173,000 for the Airport equipment and runway maintenance
- $82,410 cemetery equipment and maintenance
- $458,600 general facility maintenance
- $314,400 fire department equipment
- $208,420 IT equipment
- $42,700 museum maintenance
- $215,000 Transit bus and digital payment system
- $297,445 Other general equipment
Contact:
Mayor Matt Wren
City of Brockville 613-342-8772
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